It may not work

Disney Institute Keynote Speaker
Incredible news.

We just received word that he’s been accepted to his first college of choice.

He only submitted a college application to one school.

No second choice.

No backup.

Bold.

Committed.

All in.

They say the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.

It’s a bit like leaving Disney and Disney Institute after 30+ years to start your own entrepreneurial business.

Leaving the Company you love for your only desirable option to do what you love with significantly less travel.

The catch?

Odds of succeeding are dishearteningly low for anyone starting a small business.

Ps. It may not work.

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Why do you sit in the very last row?

Catholic Priest using technology
Father Benjamin inspired me yesterday morning. i told him afterward i could feel his passion in the very last row. PS. He’s checking his iPhone.

 

Why do you sit in the very last row?

Because…fundamentality, the last shall be first…

Actually, our Son (18) picks the seats.

You’ve heard of lose the battle, win the war?

So yeah.

i’ll take him consistently attending Sunday morning Mass without coercion over sitting front and center.

 

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To ship or not to ship

Florida caladiums in Spring
Our caladiums began popping through the surface a couple weeks ago. For us, this is the official Spring announcement.

 

To ship or not to ship.

What does this mean?

Shipping means committing to hitting publish – you go public with your art.

What’s your art?

Good question.

In a perfect world, you are keenly aware of your art.

Keenly.

Aware.

It could be that you are living like you mean it, versus living in fear, doubt, regret, worry.

Your art is what makes you come alive.

Coming alive is what slays our fear of death.

PS. Death isn’t our fear, not coming alive before we die is our fear.

PSS. Happy first day of Spring.

 

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Courage is contagious, yet some are immune

Disney Keynote Speakers
Retired from Disney, but not from working.

 

Disney Customer Service Speakers
This was a piece of trash i picked up at Magic Kingdom a couple days ago. Courage and Magic travel together.

 

Facebook algorithms auto-populate “memories” from updates – “on this day xx years ago” – here’s yesterday’s:

Courage is contagious. Jealous, negative people can’t catch it, but passionate, ordinary people can. We all get 24 hours. We all have the weight of the world on our shoulders. Put up or shut up. No?

Courage.

But some people resist courage.

i know i did for far too long.

Something incredible happened during the 2008-09 economic tsunami.

Prompted by Disney layoffs that didn’t have a logical or predictable formula, i found myself compelled to .think .differently

 

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How crazy is too crazy?

Catholic Lector
Yesterday at 8:45am Mass.

 

Lector reader
i practiced from this piece of paper. After 58 years on our planet, 30 years at Disney, 18 years as a speaker and advisor, i consider myself decently grounded and focused. To teach is to learn twice.

 

How crazy is too crazy?

Las Vegas has deeply stirred our Nation’s emotions.

In an effort to manage my attitude, physical health, spiritual wellbeing, work quality, and home karma, i write to process on paper what i cannot find another way to process.

We commit slow personal injury to ourselves, often leading to premature “death” of our attitude, health, spirit, career, and home life, when we do these things day in and day out:

  1. Watch, read, and listen to media and people who poison our mind
  2. Eat and drink whatever we want, and find sitting a life-time activity
  3. Avoid a community of like-minded believers and secretly hate many things and people
  4. Blame, criticize, and accuse (often silently) others of holding us back at work
  5. Become attached to things, memories, and status quo

We are killing ourselves so quietly and so slowly, it’s the ultimate assassination.

And to medicate, distract, and entertain ourselves, we pick up our social media microphone and broadcast our (mostly) self-righteous, grand-standing, American values, and blah, blah, blah…

You want to get pissed off and offended about something to the point of taking a stand and taking action?

Address and remedy 1-5 above.

Then, and only then, would it make sense that yours is a voice worth listening to.

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